Can you bed line a reel?

[LowRange]

Turns out you can and it looks like ass. Who knew. I have been bedlining my truck to cover rust "repair" which is actually just digging away the rot, converting the rust that remains and then covering with plastic or fiberglass filler. I went with raptor liner for the flares and lower trim. Rustolem rattle can liner for the bed caps (not pictured as done yet) and an undecided 3rd material to do the actual bed which just has a drop in.

The reel was done in the rustolem garbage because it goes on super thin. It did the plastic bed side cap things alright but has a fine texture and is very thin. You would have to do a ton of coats to shoot a bed. The raptor liner goes on in one coat from a small air compressor and is like shooting tar even at 60 psi.

[LowRange]

I still need to shoot the drag star.

This is what was under my original flares. This is what 18 years in Nebraska does to a truck.

After popping some bubbles there was no metal behind them. Neat.

New daily is this manual awd unicorn Element. It's looks like a 10 year old car underneath and is already clad in plastic. Turns out you can stick a kayak back there and still close the hatch because it also has a tailgate. Let's me keep the truck for truck stuff and hauling tne bass boat. Element for a daily, kayak and camping.

[Hobie-Wan Kenobi]

Shoot. 18 years in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan would only have the rubber of the tires left. So much salt gets dumped on the roads up here

[LowRange]

Shoot. 18 years in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan would only have the rubber of the tires left. So much salt gets dumped on the roads up here

It's not as bad in Nebraska but still pretty bad. Any 20 year old truck that has nothing done to slow the rust looks like this. My gen of Ford don't do too bad with the rust and only have issues with cab corners, back of the fenders, front of the box and rockers but the doors hang past the rockers. Non super crew cab are immune to the cab corner rot. They have that crappy 5.4 though. Rams and GMT800 GM trucks have good power trains but rust out worse than the Fords. 5.0L aluminum body Fords are what I want but run 30k for a 2016 in this market so screw that. All modern trucks rust. If its not the body because its aluminum then the thin steel boxed frame with rust and split the truck in two in 20 years. They don't last.

[godshippy]

Dang you guys have it rough! I thought buying a car from Monterey, CA would be bad but you boys take the cake!